Here’s a great compilation to read through, when you’re not…

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.”
– Helen Keller

“As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.”
– Peace Pilgrim {1908-1981), American Peace Activist

“One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.”
– Joseph Campbell

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
– Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician

“Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.”
– R. Turnbull

“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.”
– Norman B. Rice

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I’ve learned that whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
– Helen Keller

“I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.’ That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
– Minnie Louise Haskins, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd ed. (1953), 239

“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars…”
– Og Mandino

“…Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
– Marianne Williamson

“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”
– Mary Dunbar

“Like the light of a bright candle and the warmth of a fire’s glow, we brighten every corner when we let God’s love show.”
– Joyce C. Lock

“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
– Edith Wharton

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
– Plato

“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.”
– Ben Sweetland

“No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities– always see them for they’re always there.”
– Norman Vincent Peale, author, speaker and minister

“It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years – we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.”
– Sharon Salzberg (American Spritual Teacher and Author)

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I have suddenly discovered that this is a pretty good idea. Growing Orchids Indoors. It is do-able… relaxing… keeps me in tune with nature… and makes the place look great!

What else could anyone want? Of course there is an element of challenge in getting the Orchids to blossom in spite of the weather and humidity (or lack of it).

So, to meet the challenge head on, I have been doing some additional research. And http://www.GrowingOrchidsIndoors.info is the result of it. Now having put up a website to assist people interested in growing orchids indoors, my business brain pointed to the obvious need for Orchid lovers to buy stuff related to Orchids on the site as well.

So I looked up Amazon and have been floored by what I’ve been seeing the last full hour. What all people buy (and make) in this small specialized area! Here are a few samples…

Click any to explore more… I have been very conservative in my selection… but you even have Orchid guitars and dresses and baby care stuff and about 20 other categories of stuff!

Anyway I decided not to put any of the ‘salesy’ stuff on my new site as it is all about caring for Orchids and written only to be read and subscribed to by Orchid enthusiasts. If you are one, you know where to go…

If you had not come across the “Guru Blueprint course”, I would wonder.

But rather than wonder I’d like you to know that few sites at all garner as many as 5000+ comments from over 100,000 visitors in 14 days. The Eben Pagan’s Guru Blueprint blog is one of them. And it doesn’t even feature Britney Spears. In fact it’s about education!

So what makes it special? And why is it relevant for you to know?

Guru Blueprint is about developing high priced information products from the stuff you already know. Information products is where the world is headed. The quest for knowledge. CDs, videos, reports, e-learning, mastermind groups… the works. And since you have some domain expertise in some area, why not learn how to package it to make money out of it?

Evidently all the people visiting the blog agree… and are willing to put $1997 into the proven scripts, templates and tools that have had Eben Pagan generate over $100 million dollars online in the last 9 years.

After all when an authority like Eben is personally mentoring you with all you need to know to be a Guru in your domain, how can a you let a couple of thousand get in the way? You spent more on a high school education… and you know where it got you.

Moreover this deal is on a 30-day full refund + a ‘keep the materials you’ve downloaded’ policy!

And its sweetened by $17,000 worth of supplementary services I’m rendering for free. My services arise only if you enroll at this link of course http://GuruBlueprint.biz/go (watch a video where Eben explains all this for free here… sample the guy).

You can also get heaps of information here http://GuruBlueprint.biz

Needless to say Guru Blueprint is open for a very short window (perhaps till June 4) as the participant numbers are limited. Get down to earth

Is it right you are looking for a business plan template? Excellent. You know your subject and you have conceived some sort of a revenue making system for it.

So what do you do from here on… how do the options look?

1. Look for a mentor who can guide you based on his/her experiences

2. Try various ways as come to mind and use the information available freely to develop your strategies

3. Share the rights to the product or revenue with an experienced joint venture partner

4. Pay USD 2000-5000 for a program that would hold your hand till your cash machine is buzzing

Here are some views on these alternatives…

Discovering a mentor means you pay someone to go along with you through the process until you have the idea rolling into cash. If you have more money than time, that’s the track I suggest. Besides, they’ll be able to tell you if you have a viable product or not. That alone could save you tons of time and effort. If an expert tells you that you need to tweak it here and there, you’ll reach your destination comfortably. Actually, I think that hiring experts to guide you through is best, even if you have to borrow the money.

The hit and trial method is best to go bust speedily. The only way you could survive that is if you’ve got plenty of time, so your business can sustain you until you figure out the new product idea.

Joint venturing with someone who has more knowledge and experience is a good idea too. Problem is, you’ll have to give up some of the profits, but that’s how big businesses are built. It’s all about leveraging your time and effort by working with other people.

But if you do not have connections with someone to partner with, or don’t have the time to find someone, you’d do best taking your idea to someone who had all the systems set up to help you get the product out professionally and in the minimum amount of time.

And this friend, is what the “Guru Blueprint” is all about. Yes, it may cost you in the range of option 4 but even with a measly $50 profit you’d be profitable in 100 sales.

To address this subject Eben Pagan has brought out a video as he launched Guru Blueprint. In this he makes many interesting comments. One among them is the fact that his personal list of 200,000 people contributes to a business volume of 29 million dollars online.

That’s a lot of business sales for him, but he supports that with facts and figures from clickbank, which displays on its site the rollout of over one and a half billion dollars, being just a single e-product selling site.

Additionally he mentions that ebook sales have grown by 71% in the last year overtaking audio book sales too! And this is when 90% of the reading population does not read ebooks at all! He expects the ipad and kindle to increase those numbers further.

Not satisfied it’s big? Here’s more. Self help does 13 billion dollars annually growing at 10%. Information products account for about 400 billion. Personal coaching does 100 billion per annum. The site ezinearticles ranks 138 and ehow ranks 142 for site traffic. And wikipedia ranks at 6… so someone is surely looking for information.

So would it be a good thing to do, to delve into the information and advice market?There are many self made millionaires in this segment Eben says. He quotes Peter Drucker who believes that universities are on their way out only to be replaced by the multi-hundred billion dollar online education industry.

It only requires a computer and the internet to start off on creating an information business in your area of choice. You create value through articles and content for which the Guru Blueprint takes you step by step.

According to Harvey McKay, by the age of 38 an average wage earner will be put through 10 to 14 different job roles. This points to a huge and growing need for information and online learning.

So how does one start an information marketing business? There are 3 steps Eben outlines. The first is to figure out what you know that’s valuable. Second is to target your niche of people who are looking to solve those problems. And step three is building your presence systematically online.

But there’s a catch. And that is the one big mistake most people make right off the bat. At minute 25 of the 33-minute video reviewed here you will find the answer. Access the video by filling out the MEET EBEN form on the Guru Blueprint website. As a bonus you shall get the way to step 1 (knowing your strength) in a free exercise template along with the video. Trust me, you would never have thought that way before.

So what are you waiting for?

"The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you." – Robert Kiyosaki

How did this author (Robert Kiyosaki) go from homeless to being financially free in a few short years? In a nutshell, you must be true to yourself and what you want to achieve. Sit down and map out your financial plan. Control your spending habits. Minimize your debt and liabilities. Live within your means and find ways to increase your means. Develop a long-term plan. Keep in mind your most valuable asset is Time. Keep things simple.

Kiyosaki teaches about the different quadrants that help plot your own unique path to financial success by having more than one source of income, real assets, and investments. Put something away. Pay yourself first. Mind your own business. Invest in assets that put money in your pocket. Build an efficient and profitable business system that earns and works hard for you while you are out playing golf. It isn’t about how much money you make, it’s really about how much money you keep, how fast it grows and works for you, and for how many generations it will last…

We have all been conditioned all our lives to go to school, get good grades, and then get a safe, secure job. This is Industrial Age thinking. In today’s Information Age, this advice is obsolete. We are not taught how to become business owners and investors. Gone are the days when the company or government can guarantee a pension for your old age. Today and in the future, more and more people will see that they can only rely on themselves and their financial knowledge if they want real security. It would be wiser to condition ourselves, and our children into thinking: Go to school, get good grades, build businesses, and become a successful investor.

But isn’t that risky? In reality, there is a greater risk in sticking to a job than in minding your own business or putting money in investments. A job can easily be taken away from you anytime. On the business owner side of the Cashflow Quadrant , you can sell your business off for a good sum, and relax while the investments you made years earlier provide you with the cash flow for the comfortable worry-free lifestyle you and your family have always dreamed of…

Yes, you can always get a job. But you can’t always find financial freedom. The difference between Rich Dad and Poor Dad was that as Rich Dad became more successful, he had more free time to spend with the people he loved. As Poor Dad became more successful in the field of education as a state employee, he had less and less free time because of meetings and work. Financial freedom means having the cash flow and the free time. A job and a boss won’t give you that kind of freedom.

It doesn’t take a formal education to become rich. Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Ted Turner, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, Ralph Lauren. These people dropped out of school and built successful businesses.

You too can earn income in all four quadrants, regardless of what you ‘do’ professionally. A doctor can be employed by a hospital (E), have his own private practice (S), own a laboratory or clinic (B), and invest in the stock market, bond market, and real estate (I).

What’s stopping you from multi-tasking? Multiple income sources are more a necessity today than ever before. To apply a business system to practically make more money online , click here.

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Nintendo’s Wii has captured the imagination of the world like few other things ever. With the Wiimote and Nunchuk it’s revolutionary in user-friendliness… and that’s spun of a huge industry for accessories and softwares to boost performance.  HomeBreware and BreWii are a couple of products to note.

Homebreware

Homebreware is a package that enables your Nintendo Wii Console to run Homebrew Applications. More over it enables the ability of your Wii Console to play DVD movies, and finally run Import and Backup Games.

Certain Homebrew applications are called emulators with which you have an opportunity to play classic games from retro consoles such as N64, SNES, Sega Genesis and many more. The most extraordinary feature that comes from Homebreware is the ability to play backup and imported games without mod chip or anything else that might damage your console.

Homebreware allows you to run the Homebrew application on your Nintendo Wii SAFELY! Homebreware will also enable you to play backup games, DVD’s, and Mp3 music and to play classic games from SNES, N64, and Sega Genesis using emulators. It doesn’t matter if you want to use imported games, region-coded games, or backup games, Homebreware unlocks you Wii so you can play them all.

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Homebreware is by far the safest method available to unlock your Wii game console and our video instructions will have you enjoying your Wii even more than ever, in no time at all! With this package you will learn how to unlock the following features on your Wii:

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Guy Kawasaki’s book "Selling the Dream" is crucial to start internet business or MLM because the entrepreneur has to sell the dream to him or herself first to stay motivated. That’s why if you are into any online business opportunities or network marketing read this book review at least.

The book is a blue print on how you can "evangelize" or sell your dreams and ideas to other people. It also tells you how to convince people to be as passionate about your cause as you are.

Evangelism is the practice of convincing people to believe in your product or idea as much as you do. It means selling your dream by using passion, dedication, guts and cunning.

By selling the dream, you are transforming a vision into a cause and getting people interested into sharing your cause. It is more powerful than traditional sales because it involves sharing ideas, insights and hope rather than achieving personal gains.

Evangelism Goals

* Evangelism yields long-lasting and dramatic changes.
* Evangelism sustains itself.
* Evangelism grows.

The starting point for all evangelism is a cause – its reason for being. Cause can do five things:

1. Embody a vision.
2. Make people better.
3. Generate big effects that change lives.
4. Catalyze selfless actions.
5. Polarize people – when you shake up the status quo, people could either love you or hate you.

The leader provides the vision for an organization or company, and motivates its members. It requires a person to:

* Believe in the vision.
* Understand, grow and sustain the vision.
* Believe in people.
* Set an inspiring example.
* Share the cause.

Angels are individuals who share your vision and provide emotional support, expert advice, and sometimes financial aid to help you achieve your vision. Some places to find the "angels" are foundations and the community action programs of large corporations for social causes, boardrooms of large companies, among retired executives and successful network marketers .

Try to look for angels who are:

* Pure – personal satisfaction for helping a cause is the motivation for him.
* Experienced.
* Realistic.
* Outspoken.
* Connected – they have influential and powerful friends who can help your organization raise money and gain credibility.

The four qualities that typify an evangelist are:

* Called not driven – they believe in and set out to further the cause.
* Committed.
* Attract people into the cause.
* Willing to listen.

These people provide the focal point for the cause. Ignorance, inertia or conservatism is considered Conceptual enemies, while other companies, organization or people are Tactical enemies.

Tactical enemies can be an asset as they add legacy, focus and rally members, provide quantifiable milestones and help defeat shared conceptual enemies.

For becoming an Evangelist first find your cause. A cause is like a goal or a map. Without it, you waste your time, money and efforts. In effect doing more harm than good. People join causes to do the right thing, to feel good about something or to contribute, prove themselves or in some way enrich their lives. Here are the methods of finding a cause:

* Anticipating a need – the ability to foresee people’s need before they are actually aware of that need.
* Filling an existing need – giving a solution to an existing / obvious problem.
* Finding a need – finding a problem to solve with something you have discovered or invented.
* Piggybacking on other causes – strengthening and widening your cause by aligning / linking with another cause.
* Being found by a cause.

Having identified this, the bulk of the book is about planning and implementing Evangelism . And applying it to relationships. Powerful and practical strategies for the leaders of society.

Learning how to start an Internet Business doesn’t have to be complicated. The secret, Guy Kawasaki tips, ‘Starting a new online business or taking an existing business online can seem intimidating or overwhelming, but like everything else, if you make a plan and take it step by step, you’ll be up and running in no time.’

In his book, "The Art of the Start", he says not knowing where and how to begin is a dilemma shared by entrepreneurs everywhere… but what does it take to turn an idea into action?

Whether you are thinking of starting an Internet business or a church group, "The Art of the Start" will provide you with everything you need to know from raising money to fostering a community. Here’s a review of the major book headings.

The Art of Starting

There are five important things any online entrepreneur must accomplish:

1. Make Meaning. The best reason to start a business is to make meaning. Meaning is not about money, fame or power. Instead, meaning is about making the world a better place, increasing the quality of life, righting a wrong and preventing good from ending.
2. Make Mantra. Instead of a mission statement, take your meaning and make your own mantra. A mantra is defined as a sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation, or incantations such as an invocation of god or a magic spell. Examples of mantras include Disney’s “Fun family entertainment”, and Nike’s “Authentic athletic performance.” They focus you.
3. Get Going. Start creating your product or service and commence delivering to your customers. Forget about writing long business plans or creating complicated financial projections. Instead build your prototype and launch your website.
4. Define Your Business Model. Define your customers and their needs. Come up with a sales mechanism that will earn you more money than what you are spending.
5. Weave a MAT (Milestones, Assumptions, and Tasks) . Compile a list of the milestones you need to meet, assumptions that are built into your business model, and the tasks you need to accomplish to create your organization.

The Art of Positioning

With the right positioning, you should be able to see clearly why the organization was started, why it should be patronized by customers, and why good people should choose to work for the organization.

Before you begin dwelling into the art of positioning, you must first answer the question, “What do you do?” You must be able to provide an answer that not only seizes the high ground but shows exactly how your organization differs from its competitors. It is only then that you can communicate this powerful message to your chosen market.

Seize the High Ground. Good positioning must have the following qualities:

* Positive.
* Customer-centric.
* Empowering to your employees.
* Self-explanatory.
* Targets the intended customer.
* Must show the core competencies of your organization.
* Relevant to your core competencies and to the core needs of your customers.
* Long-lasting.
* Different from your competitors.

Other Positioning Tips:

* Position your product or service in the most personal manner you can.
* You must choose a remarkable name for your organization, product or service.
* Use plain words that are easy to understand when describing what your company can do for your customers. Avoid technical or insider jargon.
* Offer concrete points instead of mere overused adjectives when distinguishing your products to competitors. Instead of calling your system safe, say that your system has never been hacked.

The Art of Pitching

For an entrepreneur, pitching is almost as important as breathing. Not only is pitching a great tool for raising money, it is essential for reaching agreements. Needless to say, agreements are common to any entrepreneur’s daily life.

Here are some tips to help you make a perfect pitch:

1. Explain Yourself in the First Minute. Every single time you make your pitch, take in mind that your audience is waiting for you to answer one question: “What does your organization do?” The next time you make a pitch, make sure that you answer that question in the very first minute.
2. Answer the Little Man. Picture a little man sitting on your shoulder the next time you are giving a presentation. Imagine the little man whispering, “So what?” in your ear every time you make a point. Always answer the little man’s question. To make it even better, right after you answer the so-what question, move into “For instance…” and provide a real-world use or scenario.
3. Know Your Audience. Do your research before any meeting starts. Find out who you would be pitching to and learn what’s important to your audience. You must also visit the organization’s website and gather core information about the people you would be speaking to.
4. Pitch Constantly. The best way to achieve familiarity is to keep doing your pitch over and over again. Try out your pitch in front of your employees, relatives and friends.

The Art of Bootstrapping

Most people are surprised to learn that industry giants Microsoft and eBay are two companies that started with a bootstrap model. A bootstrappable business model has:

* Low up-front capital requirements.
* Short (under a month) sales cycles.
* Short (under a month) payment terms.
* Recurring revenue.
* Word of mouth advertising.

Bootstrapping might mean passing up profitable sales that may take a long time to collect or stretching your payments for everything you buy. This might mean a decline in “paper” profits but for a bootstrapper, paper profits are not as important as cash flow management.

If you are bootstrapping, you obviously are not sitting on a pile of money. Therefore, it is imperative that you get your product or service to the market immediately. When using this philosophy, you are opting to fix the problems of your product later rather than now.

The good news is, with this method, you will receive immediate cash flow and feedback from the real world. Unfortunately, this method might also tarnish your image if there are quality problems.

It is not easy to make this decision. If you feel that you would allow the people you love to use the product or service as it is right now, then it might be correct to ship it. If you are running out of money, it might also be advisable to ship the product and deal with the consequences later.

Bootstrapping Tips

1. Focus on Function, Not Form. Do not focus on form when it comes to spending money. If you need proper accounting, you don’t need to hire a big name firm. You also don’t need to buy expensive stuff… just functional.
2. Go Direct. Take the opportunity to sell directly to your customers. Only use resellers once you have ensured that your product and service is bug-free. Remember, you have to establish your product on your own.
3. Position against the Leader. As a bootstrapper, positioning against the market leader or going against accepted ways of doing things might be the smartest thing to do.
4. Understaff and Outsource. Overstaffing can cause you a multitude of problems. It is better to understaff and outsource. Do not outsource research and development, marketing and sales. Instead, outsource your routine management functions.
5. Sweat the Big stuff. Save on office space, furniture, computers, and office equipment. However, make sure you spend enough on product development, sales, billing and collection.
6. Execute. The failure to execute can be disastrous to a bootstrapper. To be able to execute, you must be able to set and communicate goals, measure progress, have a point of accountability, follow through until an issue is done or irrelevant, heed reality.

The Art of Partnering

Although good partnering can increase cash flow, accelerate revenue and reduce costs, a bad partnership can very well mean the other way around. Some tips that can help you master the art of partnering:

1. Partner to accelerate your entry into a new area, open up new distribution channels, speed up product development and reduce your costs.
2. Define Deliverables and Objectives. These include additional revenues, reduced costs, new products and services, new customers, new markets, etc.
3. Cut Win-Win Deals. Both partners have to win. Do not enter into win-lose partnerships.
4. Wait to Legislate. Don’t ask for legal advice too early. Legal experts will always give you more reasons not to go through the deal. Agree on business terms on your own before you bring in your lawyers.
5. Put an “Out” Clause in the Deal. The assurance that both parties won’t be trapped into a partnership that is not working actually promotes longevity.

The Art of Branding

In Internet business you would first be branding YOU. People buy from YOU. Guy Kawasaki refers to this as proselytization, which is the art of converting others to your belief or doctrine.

For online start-ups, proselytization is the core of branding. You must be able to create something contagious that would make people enthusiastic and eager to try your product or service. You must be able to make other people spread the word around.

The secret to branding is aligning with a product or service that is already gold or enhancing your product and service until it becomes gold. You must be able to create or find products and services that are contagious. Contagious products and services are:

* Cool.
* Effective.
* Distinctive.
* Disruptive.
* Emotive.
* Deep.
* Indulgent.
* Supported.

Branding Tips

1. Recruit Evangelists. Evangelists are people who believe in you and what you do. Take advantage of the customers who wish to help you and your business. Assign them tasks and expect them to get done. Provide them the tools they need to evangelize.
2. Foster a Community. Identify and recruit customers who are enthusiastic about what you do. Hire someone whose sole task is to foster a community. Integrate the presence of your community in all your sales and marketing tools. Allow members to use your building for their events and conferences.
3. Achieve Humanness. Target the young and don’t be afraid to make fun of yourself. Feature your customers and help the underprivileged.
4. Focus on Publicity. To attract publicity, create something grand and get them into the hands of people. Make friends even with reporters from publications you have never heard of. Additionally, make sure you maintain good relations with the press all year round.

The Art of Rainmaking

A rainmaker is a person who generates large quantities of business. The first step of rainmaking in a start-up business is to get the very first version of the product or service out to the market. After you do this, you must observe where your product or service will sell the most.

The second step of rainmaking is to be able to sell the product or service well. Remember, as a start-up, people are not aware of your products and services. You must overcome resistance.

Here are some tips you can use to master the art of rainmaking:

* Pick the right lead generation method .
* Find the key influencer. Ignore titles. They really don’t mean much.
* Be nice to secretaries and administrative aids.
* Make your prospect talk. This way, they’ll be able to tell you what you need to do to close the deal.
* Ask customers to test drive your products and services.
* Give your customers a slow and easy adoption curve.
* Do not be fazed when you are rejected.

The Art of Being a Mensch

Mensch is a Yiddish term for an ethical and admirable person. In some cultures, it is considered the highest form of praise. To be a mensh, you must help people, do what’s right and contribute to society.

Here are some tips on becoming a mensch:

* Help people who can not help you back.
* Observe the spirit of agreements, pay for what you get and focus on what is important.
* Help society by giving money, time, expertise and emotional support.

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